of GWS freight cars. I then misted the car with Dullcote, and
being that the prototype car was relatively new, there wasn't
needed much in the way of weathering. The entire ICH tag and
portrait of the unknown woman ... was all hand painted freehand
... pretty much a close match to the prototype."
"I constructed a diorama to present this model. I wanted to
address a scene behind a warehouse with a reflective puddle of
water that would display the model in the foreground in reverse.
Thought it might be an interesting effect. I used a sheet of
masked Plexiglass imbedded into the press board base to rep-
resent the water. I then added all the scenery around to incorpo-
rate the standing water puddle into the fixed scene."
"All in all ... this wasn't a very time-consuming project in creating
the diorama scene. The model
absorbed approximately 20
hours (in segmented sessions)
to complete."
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